Zor Hayat

In Hard Life, which begins with two orphan siblings moving in with their step-uncle Mr. Collopy, who lives in Dublin, after the death of their mother, the author claims that "none of them are partially The story of the "albeit non-fiction" characters progresses in two layers. O'Brien presents one of the most original examples of absurd parody, describing, on the one hand, the struggle for women's rights of Collopy, who challenges the doctrines of the Catholic Church, and on the other hand, the adventure of the Brother, who raised the flag of rebellion against family and educational institutions, establishing his own academy and jumping headlong into the publishing industry, with his unique humorous language. To the reader.

The project on which Collopy works diligently maintains its mystery until the last pages of the novel, and the dose of humor gradually increases. In Hard Life, where the parody is crowned with an absurd finale, "everything sacred becomes profane [with laughter]" in the Ireland of the 1890s. The mask of institutions that rely on rigid, sullen, insipid, dead discourses is being ripped off.

O'Brien sees Dublin, which Joyce described as the "center of paralysis", as the center of misery. redefines it. Dublin in this novel is a decaying colonial capital, where grotesque bodies of sick, drinking, peeing and vomiting are trapped in clichés and cheerful dialogues in which an empty rhetoric circulates, accompanied by whiskey glasses that are filled and emptied at every opportunity. O'Brien, who draws his black humor from this source, overcomes, in his own words, "the feeling of doom that Irish Catholics inherited from their past", with laughter.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Translated by: Gülden Hatipoglu
Prepared for publication: Armagan Ekici
Cover : Emir Tali

Size : 13x19

First Printing Year : 2017

Print Number: 1. Edition

Number of Pages: 158

Media Type: Paperback